Eventually, after nine straight losses, Motor beat Pilsen 3: 2 after separate raids. “It was nice to see that the team wanted to win the match under the coach, which they did in the end, even though it looked like a player had won it, so it’s always about the team,” praises the Lithuanian hockey legend and alludes to the performance in particular Lukáš Pecha, who scored a goal in regulation time, passed the second to Jakub Valský and transformed the decisive series to the top.
“Of course, I am happy for both the coach and the boys, because with this they could most likely make it and establish a completely different regime”, the 51-year-old expert believes positively.
“The players don’t have to accept this ultimatum, they have to give up and put together not one, but several games, a few lines to defend the manager if they want to play under him,” he adds. Motor won the next match with Třinec, again 3: 2 on the raids.
The second manager change took place in Litvínov, where Vladimír Růžička ended up. It was Litvínov who caught the attention of hockey fans a year ago when he named Růžička after Vladimír Országh. The Slovakian manager was also expected to receive an ultimatum from the management, but his team won the key game, but in the end the club management changed their minds.
We also do coaching exchanges in the hockey extraliga in Příklep with Jiří Šlégr. You can also play the entire episode in the podcast version.